1992 · Invented hypertext authoring program

Two years before the commercial internet boom, Matterform created a hypertext authoring system called "Cylinder." It was a pre-internet technology that let desktop users create hypertext applications with links and embedded images and many of the features that later came to be associated with the World Wide Web.

1993 · Enhanced the hypertext interface

Matterform invented an interface device for Cylinder called QBullets, tiny icons used next to hypertext links to indicate their meaning. In 1995, Herrick adapted QBullets for the World Wide Web and released a freeware collection on the new Matterform Web site. Even today, QBullets and QBullet imitations continue to be featured on thousands of Web sites around the world.

1994 · Pioneered Web site navigation

Matterform created its first Web site for its first commercial Web client, a Santa Fe gallery. The new site featured navigational buttons at the top of every page, making a true Web "site" rather than just a collection of Web "pages." While it seems obvious in retrospect, this was a unique innovation in 1994. When the site first appeared on the NCSA Mosaic What's New page (the only "search engine" around in those days) there were fewer than 500 Web sites in the entire world.

Also in 1994, Matterform invented a software program for creating Web pages, called the HTML Grinder. The Grinder became the first commercial Web software in the world and one of the first commercial programs to be distributed on the internet. The Matterform site was one of the first successful ecommerce Web sites in the world, selling license codes online to unlock the downloaded demo software.

1995 · Visionary behind the shopping cart

Matterform created the first version of the Nina Designs Web site. The site was one of the first database-powered Web sites ever created (using now obsolete software called Hypercard as the back end). Matterform invented for the site a brand new ecommerce interface which has since become familiar to all internet users as the Shopping Cart interface.

1996 · Developed gallery and ecommerce website

While continuing his involvement in Matterform Media, Herrick formed a partnership with a trio of gallery and business experts to develop a new Web site called Interart. The successful gallery and ecommerce Web site was sold two years later to another company.

1997 · Corporate experience

Matterform began a multi-year partnership with Fortune 500 firm Booz Allen Hamilton, developing the firm's Web marketing presence and leveraging intranet Web technology for internal training purposes.

1999 · More internet software tools

Matterform invented Web Kitchen, a suite of plugins for the popular Dreamweaver Web site editing software by Macromedia. Matterform sold Web Kitchen on its ecommerce Web site for a number of years.

2001 · Innovative and popular spam blocking program

Matterform invented Spamfire, a very popular Macintosh desktop program for stopping unwanted commercial and pornographic email. Utilizing fuzzy logic and later, Bayesian statistical analysis, Spamfire boasted an accuracy rate in excess of 99%.

2005 · Created Voltaire, a custom Web framework

Unhappy with the underpowered and inflexible Web development tools then available, Matterform began in-house development on Voltaire, a custom-built Web framework. Matterform re-built the Nina Designs and the Matterform Software Web sites using Voltaire.

2007 · Continuing to lead

Matterform continues to develop new tools for the Voltaire Web framework. Voltaire now boasts a robust collection of re-usable tools that can be leveraged for any Web site. Tools include account authentication, CRM features, personalized email campaigns, and more.